Introduction: Politicizing the domestic and domesticizing politics

Melissa Dinsman, Megan Faragher, Ravenel Richardson

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Abstract

The traditional narrative of the mid-century (1930s-60s) is that of a wave of expansion and constriction, with the swelling of economic and political freedoms for women in the 1930s, the cresting of women in the public sphere during the Second World War, and the resulting break as employment and political opportunities for women dwindled in the 1950s when men returned home from the front. But as the burgeoning field of interwar and mid-century women’s writing has demonstrated, this narrative is in desperate need of re-examination. Mid-century women's writing: Disrupting the public/private divide aims to revivify studies of female writers, journalists, broadcasters, and public intellectuals living or working in Britain, or under British rule, during the mid-century while also complicating extant narratives about the divisions between domesticity and politics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMid-Century Women's Writing
Subtitle of host publicationDisrupting the public/private divide
EditorsMelissa Dinsman, Megan Faragher, Ravenel Richardson
PublisherManchester University Press
Pages1-13
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9781526169785
ISBN (Print)9781526169778
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 9 2024

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Arts and Humanities

Keywords

  • Gender identity in literature
  • British history--20th century

Disciplines

  • European History
  • Literature in English, British Isles

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